Autographic register



April 14, 1925. 1,533,320

H. H. KONERMAN AUTOGRAPHIC REGI STER Filed Aug'. 5, 1922 4 3 /s/azzg D n 5 J/ 1 2, I6 2 l/ l L- 'Il Il l j O- mnm 37 .7 V Y //Z Eiga 34 i H arrLj H. Konerman IMI y. Patented Apr', 14, 1925.

i HARRY II.

UNITED STATES A 1,533,320 PATENT OFFICE.

RONERMAN, OE NEWPORT, KENTUCKY, AssIGNOR To THE GLOBE REGISTER COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

i Application led August 3, 1922. Serial No. 579,374.

T o all whom it may concern:

Beit known that l, HARRY H. KONERMAN, a citizenA of the United States of America, and a resident of Newport, in the countyof Campbell and State of Kentucky, have Invented a new and useful Improvement 1n Autographic Registeis, of which the following is a specification. Y

An object of my invention is to provide a simple and efficient conditioning device to be employed with autographic registers,

' whereby the several sheets of paper employed therein may be automatically stopped after having beenmoved a, determinable distance.

Another object of my invention is to pro-- vide a device having a minlmum of moving parts.

A embodying my invention.

Fig. 2, is a sectional view taken on line 2 2 of Fig. 3. i

Fig. 3, is a sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

The register 4 comprises the ordinary casing 5, within which are contained rolls 8, comprising several sheets which may be fed to and below an opening or aperture 6 in the top plate 7 of the casing. The rolls of paper have disposed between them suitable sheets of copying or carbon paper, as is common .in the art. The sheets of paper are fed thru the device by means of rollers 9, 10 and 11, mounted on a shaft 12, co Operating with rollers 13, 14 and 15, mounted on a shaft 16. The shaft 12 is revolubly mounted upon the sides of the casing 4, and carries a gear 17, in engagement with a gear 18 carried by the shaft 16. which shaft 16 has one of its ends revolubly mounted upon one side of the casing, and has its other end supported b v a bracket 19, carried by a cross bar 20 extending between the sides of the register. The rollers 9, 10, are spaced from the rollers 13 and 15, at a distance slightly less than the thiol-:ness of the several sheets 21, fed below the aperture 6 In the top plate. The sheets are provided with registering slots 22, which slots are in alignment with the rollers 13 and 15, and 'whichon registering with said rollers 1'3 and 15, preclude further movement of the sheets by means ofthe rollers.

The feed roller 11 has an enlarged axial bore 23, thru which the shaft 12 extends. This enlarged bore permits the roller 11 to assume a lowermost position` such that the roller 11 will exert no appreciable pressure upon the several sheets 21, and upon the roller 14 in substantial vertical alignment with the roller 11. The roller 11 is adapted to revolve fvith the shaft 12, this being accomplished by means of a pair of pins 24 and 25, carried by the roller, and a pin 26 carried by the enlarged portion 27 of the shaft 12, the pin 26 being disposed between the pins 24 and 25. The portion 27 and collar 28 serve to space the roller l1 from rollers 9 and 10 which are fixed upon the Shaft.

A shaft 29 mounted between the sides of the register, carries a lever 30, one end of which extends thru an elongated slot 31, formed in one wall of the register, and carrying upon its end a suitable finger or thumb piece 32, Whereby said lever may be employed to revolubly actuate the shaft 29. The shaft 29 carries a bracket 33 revolubly supporting a mutilated wheel or feed roller 34. The wheel 34 is weighted on that side which is mutilated, wherefore the wheel tends at all times to assume a position such that the mutilated portion thereof will be lowermost. The mutilation infeed or roller wheel 34 comprises an arcuate notch 35, into which the feed roller 11 may extend. A spring 36, yieldingly resists movement of the lever 30 and the shaft 29.

The operation of my device is as follows Normally the sheets of paper 21 have their slots 22 in registration with the rollers 9, 10, 13 and 15. wherefore rotatory motion of the crank 37 has no effect upon moving the sheets from the device. Normally the un balanced wheel 34, assumes the position shown in Fig. 3. Wherefore the feed roller 11 assumes its lowermost position, and when the roller 11 is revolved with the shaft 12, the roller 11 exerts no pressure upon the sheets 21.

Willen the .finger piece 32 is depressed against the yielding resistance of the spring When the crank 37 is then revolved, the

action of the rollers 11 and 14 upon the sheets 22, serves to carry the sheets 22 longitudinally of the device and move the slots 22 in the sheets beyond the rollers 9, 10, 13 and 15, wherefore the last mentioned rollers cooperate with rollers 11 and 14 in moving the several sheets thru the device. As the feed roller 11 revolves the feed roller or wheel 34 moves therewith and upon registration of the notch 35 in the unbalanced wheel with the roller 11, the roller 11 enters into the notch and can assume its lowermost position. The rollers 9, 10, 13 and 15, continue the feed of the sheetsl until the next series of slots 22 in th-e sheets of paper 21, register with the rollers 13 and 15, thereby precludinof further feed of the sheets.

what femm is:-

1. In a device of the -class described the combination of three shafts having their axes in substantial parallelism, rollers mounted on two of the shafts adapted to cooperate inmoving perforated sheets of paper between the shafts carrying said rollers, said rollers being adapted to register with slots in pieces ofpaper, whereby to render the rollers inoperative upon the sheets of paper, another pair of rollers carriedby said shafts, one of said rollers being capable of eccentricjmovement in relation to the shaft carrying sam-e, and being adapted to move with saidy shaft, and means carried by the third shaft adapted to bring the last mentioned pair of rollers into cooperative relationship upon sheets of paper, whereby tomove the slots in the sheets of paper beyond the first mentioned rollers.

2. In a device of the class described the combination of a drive shaft, a driven shaft, rollers carried by the drive shaft and the driven shaft adapted to move sheets of paper therebetween and to register with slots formed in the sheets of paper, whereby to render the rollers inoperative upon the sheets, a starting roller mounted on the drive shaft and adapted to revolve .therewith, the starting roller having an enlarged bore whereby relative lateral movement of saidroller and the drive shaft may be attained, a roller carried by the driven shaft adapted to cooperate with the starting roller, whereby to move sheets of paper, and means to move the starting roller laterally into cooperative relationship with its complementary roller on the drlve shaft.

3. In a trip mechanism of the class described the combination of a revoluble roller, capable of lateral movement in'relation to its axis, a. roller complementary to the first roller, and from 'which the first roller is normally spaced, and means to bodily move-the first mentioned roller toward the second roller whereby to bring the rollers into feeding relation.

4. In a trip mechanism of the class dcscribed the combination of a shaft, a roller adapted to revolve with the shaft, and capable of lateral bodily movement in relation to the axis of the shaft, a second rollerv adated to cooperate with the first roller, and means to actuate the first roller bodily lat.- erally in relation to the axis of its support and'to yieldingly retain said roller in cooperative relationship with the second roller.

5. In a trip mechanism of the class dcscribed the combination of a pair of normally non-cooperating feed rollers having their axes normally spaced at a distance less than their combined radii, and capable of assuming a cooperative relationship, with their axes disposed at a distance sub- ,stantially equal to their combined radii and means to bring the feed rollers into co-operative relationship. v

l6. In a trip mechanism of the class described the combination of a pair of normally non-cooperating feed rollers capable of assuming a cooperative relationship, and means to bring the feed rolle-rs into cooperative relationship comprising a bearing capable of lateral movement, a stop limiting movement of the bearing in a given direction, means yieldi1iglyi'esisting move- 'ment of the bearing from the stop, and a roller revolubly mounted .fon the bearing having a depression into which one of the feed yrollers may enter, the mutilated roller being weighted so as to be unbalanced when the feed roller is'lodged in the depression, the mutilated roller and the yielding means being adapted to bring the feed rollers into `cia-operating relationship when said feed roller is-dislodged.

7. In a trip mechanism of the class described the combination of a pair of normally non-co-operating spaced feed rollers, one of the rollers being capable of bodily movement toward the other 'and into cooperative relationship with the other, and means to move said laterally moving roller into co-operative relationship with the other roller. l

8. In a trip mechanism of the class described the combination of a pair of normally non-cooperating spaced feed rollers, one of the rollers being capable of bodily movement toward the other and into cooplut) erative relationship with the other, and

9. In a trip mechanism of the class described the combination of a pair of normally non-cooperating feed rollers capable of relative movement toward oneanother whereby to assume a co-operative feeding relationship, and means to bring the feed rollers 'into co-operative feeding relationship comprising a revolubly mounted roller having a depression in its periphery into which the one feed roller may extend, that portion of the roller adjacent the depression being adapted, when the feed roller is dislodged from the depression to assume a position such that the non-mutilated portion of the periphery of the roller may engage the dislodged feed roller whereby to bring the feed rollers in'to co-operativc relationship, the dislodged feed roller being capable of returning the mutilated roller to a position such that said feed roller may again enter the depression. f

l0. In a trip mechanism of the class described the combination of a pair of normally non-cooperating feed rollers capable of relative movement toward one another whereby to assume a (zo-operative feeding relationship, means to bring the feed rollers into co-operative feeding relationship comprising a revolubly mounted roller having a depression in its periphery into Which the one feed roller may extend, that portion of the roller adjacent the depression being adapted, when the feed roller is dislodged from the depression, to assume a position such that the non-mutilated portion of the periphery of the roller may engage the dislodged feed roller whereby to bring the feed rollers into co-operative relationship, the dislodged feed roller being capable of returning the mutilated roller to a position such that said feed rollei` may again enter the depression, and means yieldingly resisting -relative movement of the mutilated roller and feed roller adapted to enter into the depression, to a relation such that the depression in the mutilated roller is oit of registration with said feed roller.

11. In a trip mechanism of the class described the -combination of a pair of normally non-cooperating feed rollers capable of assuming a cooperative relationship, means to bring the feed rollers into cooperative relationship comprising a bearing capable of lateral movement, a stop limiting movement of the bearing in a given direction, means yieldingly resisting movement of the bearing from the stop, and a roller revolubly mounted on the bearing having a depression into Which one of the rollers may enter, the mutilated roller being Weighted so as to be unbalanced when the feed roller is lodged in the depression, the mutilated roller and the yielding means being adapted to bring the feed rollers into cooperative relationship When said feed roller is dislodged, the aforementioned yielding means being adapted to resist movement ofthe rollers from their normal ynon-cooperating relationship.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 31st day of July, 1922.

HARRY H. KONERMAN. 

